Apollo Four Forty

Electro Glide in Blue (Epic)
by Malcolm E

I’m sure a good number of you have heard the Van Halen-inspired “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Dub” by Apollo Four Forty. Well, the album it’s off is Electro Glide in Blue, and it’s pretty good, considering the immediate one-hit-wonder potential of the single. Although the main appeal is that of dance floor potential… yeah, I know they all are, or at least most of them, but I’m talking about the fact that “Bust Child” can be played in your car just as painlessly as in a club. You can even listen to it while eating dinner. It doesn’t lose its appeal when you’re not coked to the nines on a Saturday night. Anyway, the title track is a slippery slow groove, while “Krupa” uses samples of Gene, jazz master, to create the track’s rhythms. The album even ends on a high note, “Raw Power,” mixing up hyper rhythms and rap-chants with some horn hits.